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Recent reviews

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  Close Your Eyes 2023

  Watched 14 Sep 2023

  TIFF #29 

  “You think a movie can bring about a miracle?” 

  Very possibly the perfect way to end this year’s fest.

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  Evil Does Not Exist 2023

  Watched 14 Sep 2023

  TIFF #28

Popular reviews

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  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017

  ★ Watched 11 Dec 2017 477

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Random (very spoilery) notes:

  -The title/place name is oddly specific for such a nondescript town/place. Why the title? Is the town name important? Is it a small town? Large town? Small enough for one character to know about another character’s illness, but too big for hospital staff to know they shouldn’t put the perpetrator of violence in the same room with the victim of his violence? (But also, the hospital is so small-town they don’t have a separate burn unit?)…

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  Eighth Grade 2018

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Feb 2019 23

  Rather nervously sat down to watch this with our two teen daughters. I thought it might be traumatizing, too close to home, especially for our oldest, who has severe social anxiety and depression. But we stayed up til 2 AM afterwards talking. There were tears and hugs. They told us stuff they feel now and stuff they’d felt in middle school that they couldn’t say before. They saw themselves onscreen and saw someone knew and someone cared. 

  So grateful to  Bo Burnham and the medium of film — my girls felt seen.

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